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My 16-month theanine self-experiment

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817 points dynm | 1 comments | 09 Mar 25 03:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.214s | source
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discodonkey ◴[09 Mar 25 06:49 UTC] No.43306858[source]▶
For a community that prides itself on critical thinking, I'm always surprised to see HN lap this sort of pseudoscientific witch-doctor stuff up.

This poorly-controlled, N=1 experiment tells you nothing, not even about the author.

There's absolutely no reason to consider these novice self-experiments when professional scientific experiments are available (unless you're hunting for a specific result).

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1. aucisson_masque ◴[09 Mar 25 06:56 UTC] No.43306891[source]▶
It's the contrary. Science, see European Food Safety Authority and examine.com, shows lots of data that it doesn't work.

Yet people have been saying all over the internet it's working.

The burden of the proof is on those who claim the opposite of the vast majority of scientist studies.

Beside, N=1 studies is still better than some nobody on the internet claiming it works when he did nothing to negate the placebo effect.